My Dell Dimensions Desktop is only 1 year and 1 month old. I tried to turn it on and the screen comes up and says 1.analog 2. analog placing in safe mode. At first I thought someone accidently put it in sleep mode and it wouldn't wake up. But, now I am having such problems with it. At this point I am using an old computer to get on line. I am running Windows Vista in the new one and have NEVER had a virus...please help me. Some "kid" at Circuit City said it was my mother board..just looking for an easy fix

Your video drive is not installed or is corupted. try bootimg in VGA Mode by pressing F8 When the computer boots or get an old monitor and connect it to your computer and install the Video driver. To download the drive go to dell .com and click dowload drivers and find your computer and dounload the video driver and install it then put your regular monitor back.

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If you are getting no post display on boot up (dell spash screen, and windows loading screen):

First step is to plug a different monitor into the computer. If this works you most likely have a bad monitor. If not then it is a hardware issue with the video card on the computer.

If you getting the post screen then you may have your resolution set to high, boot in safe mode (F8 on the key board right after the post screen) and chose safe mode. once windows comes up, right click the back ground and chose a lower resolution setting.

battery is deffinitly the slow boot problem, i put fixed up a old dell for a friend and before i replaced the cmos battery it was doing the exact same thing (don't forget to unplug and press the power button so you don't get shocked or harm the pc)

1. Reseat your hard drive - unplug the ide cable from the motherboard and plug it again
2. Reseat the memory - remove and put it back again
3. Try to go to safe mode - while starting, press the F8 key to see the options
4. On the otherhand, you can select boot from the cd and use your Dell Diagnostic Utility and run hardware tests and see whats wrong..

When you first turn on your computer, start pressing the F8 key about once every 1/2 second until you get to the boot menu. From there, select "Safe Mode" or "Safe Mode with Networking" (if you want to transfer files via network connection). The rest should be pretty self explanatory.

if you have the windows xp disk, boot from it by pressing F12 upon turning on your computer. press 'R' to choose recovery console. you might be asked which windows installation you want to start, just press 1. when you see the console, enter the command 'fixboot' without the quotes. then type exit to restart your computer. hope it helps.

have you tried booting in safe mode? When it starts press F8 and select "Safe Mode" or "Last Known Good Configuration.". On that 10th try you do get it to come up make sure you install all updates for your computer. Then you can put int he Optiplex disk from Dell and run some diagnostics.

how old is your screen, if its older than 2-3 years mostly its gone and you need to replace it. If its in warranty then contact dell customer support. Life of screen can be around 3 years after that i may not work.
Another test is to connect it to some other computer and see if its working, then we can focus on some output issue from the CPU.